Linotype-machine.



L WEISSINGER.

LINOTYPE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.4.1915.

Patented 001.12, 1915.`

WIT/VESSES JACOB .WEISSINGEIQ OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LINOTYPE-MACHINE.

i Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fil-ed February 4, 1915. Serial No. 6,043.

To NZZ. whom t Ymay concern Be it known'that L Jacon \V1nss1xo1:n, a. citizen ot' the `United States. and airesident ot' Glendale, in the city ot' New York, borough of Queens, county ot' Queens, and State ot' New York, have invented cer-tain new and useful Improvements in Linotylie-Machines, ot' which the following is a slwcitication.

M y invention relates to linotype machines, particularlyv to the matrices used therein, and the main object is tor provide means t'orl cleansing said matrices ot dirt or corrosion autoinatically.y whereby the characters there'- in are rendered clearly visible. to the operator in the position ot' the first elevator.

further object is to so construct the said cleansing means as to serve as a notification to the operator that a matrix is becoming worn out.

A further object is to cl ansc the matrices just previous to their -entry into the distributer box; and further objects are to provide such devices which-are simple in construction. adapted for attachment to machines ot' the above class without any material alteration therein, positive in result,I

composed ot' t'ew part-s not likely to get out ot' order to require repair, and comparatively inexpensive.

My invention is fully described in the fol; lowing slncitication, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like reference characters refer to like parts in each ot' the views` and in which Figure l is a fragmentary trout view of a linotype machine in the position ot' the distributer box, and showing my invention in the present preferred position; Fig. Q is a-n My invention is shown as being mounted upon the front plate of the distributer box Gv and comprises a plate 9 'detachably'held on said boX by means of a screw l0, a horizontal shaft 11 rotatable in said [plate provided with a pinion 12 atone end and a bevel gear le intermediate its length enmeshed with ay similar' gear let carried by a vertical shaft l5 also rotatable in said plate, and provided with an abrasive disk or The spur pinion 12 isv ennieshed with a similar p'inion 17 mounted on a shaft 18 connected with the lo\ver front, distribnter screw .ofthe machine, and it will be seen that the -disk or brush 1G `is revolved in the rotation ot' said screw. I provide a slotQO in the front plate ot' the box G, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. to allow the disk orbrush .1G to extend into said box and in the path ot' forward movement of the matrices to-` ward their I nagazines` this slot and disk being in the position ot the characters in the matrices. whereby said matrices are polished in the positions ot the characters therein in .their passage past the .disk 1G. thus render'- are again carried into rst elevator position Y the characters on the matrices not worn are clearly visible, but the characters ont-he worn matrices are not so clearly visible. with the result that the operator is thus acquainted with the matrices which areworn and need to bev replaced.

My device is intended to clean the matrices in the positions ot the reference characters thereon after they have been separated from the space-bands and without taking the matrices from the machine; the reason tor this is that`on all machines using space-bands the latter need to be cleaned with graphite every eight hours that the machine is in use; on linotype machines the matrices and space-bands must travel to' gether until they reach the transter point where the space-bands are left and the matrices pass to the distributer box; by the matrices and space-bands traveling together the graphite with which the spacebands have been cleaned covers up the reference char'- Patented Oct. 12, 1915.v

' acters so as to render it impossible for the operator to distinguish the same while the matrices are inthe assembler.

On all linotype machines using matrices, the latter travel into the distributer box with the-reference characters thereon facing the front of the machine, the casting face or molds facing toward the rearof the machine, as the matrices will not travel through distributer box otherwise, and it is because of this that I slot the lfront plate and mount my device thereat.

The point of operative connection with the machine, to the lower, front, distributei screw, forms an essential feature of my device inasmuch as the distributer box on all linotype machines needs to be taken ofi' yvhen a matrix gets caught therein, said distributer box being moved downward fo; separation from the machine. This requires. that I shall have the pinion l2 beneath the distributer screw pinion 17, otherwise I would have to remove my device from the distributer box before it could be removed from the machine.

The important points of my invention are that cleaning takes place o'n the fronts of the matrices, after the space-bands with their adhering graphite have been separated therefrom, before the matrices enter the magazine; the connection of my device with the lower, front, distributer screw; theremoval of my device with the distributer box; and the unit formation of my device.y

enabling the same to be readily assembled on machines already in use.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iszl. The combination with a linotype mar chine provided with a plurality of matrices having reference characters thereon, a detachable distributer box, and a lower, front, distributer screw; of anabrasive element, in the path of said matrices to be distributed, projected through the front plate of and portable with said box, and means for operatively connecting said element with said tachable distributer box, and a lower, front,

distributer screw; of a plate secured to the front of said box, a shaft carried by said plate, a disk revoluble. with said shaft, a pinion on said shaft, a supplemental shaft geared to said pinion, and gears connecting said supplemental shaft and said" lower, front, distributer screw, the front/ of said box being slotted to receive said 'disk and permit the same to bear on said matrices in the positions of said characters in the movement of said matrices to be distributed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOBA VEISSINGER.

lVitnesses':

CASPER JOHN STUMPF, CHARLES A. SCI-IULT.

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Washington. D. G 

